Lying Liars

Al Franken (an author and TV scriptwriter that I used to admire) wrote a book called, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right”. If he had any dignity he would write a sequel called “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Left”.

The campaign of lies that gushes from a small but growing group of leftwing Democratic Party politicians knows no decency. Despite all the dire threats they claimed that Judge Alito presented to our country and Constitution, reality proved them wrong with a quickness. In his first case Supreme Court Justice Alito split with conservatives and blocked the execution of an African American death row inmate (so much for Ted Kennedy’s sly assertion that Alito will hurt minorities because he is a bigot when he cited Alito’s short-lived membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton).

Campus Progress, a tool for George Soro’s Center of American Progress, launched a smear campaign called “Alito’s America”. They claimed that Alito’s nomination was dangerous because “his extreme right-wing ideology would endanger our basic freedoms”. I am sorry for the language, but these assholes are eating crow right about now.

In an effort to paint a picture of just how “dangerous” Alito is on the issue of capital punishment they posted the following excerpt from an L.A. Times article (despite the fact that Alito’s record on capital punishment is actually mixed):

“Law professor Goodwin Liu has noted that during Alito’s tenure as a federal appeals judge he has participated in ten death penalty cases: “Five were decided unanimously by three-judge panels and involved fairly straightforward issues. The other five provoked strong differences of opinion between Alito and his colleagues. In every one of the five contested cases, Alito voted against the inmate and issued an opinion. Individually and especially as a whole, these opinions show a troubling tendency to tolerate serious errors in capital proceedings. Whatever one may think of the death penalty, Alito’s record should give pause to all Americans committed to basic fairness and due process of law.” (Los Angeles Times, 11/27/05)

Lets rewind to Ted Kennedy’s debacle on the Senate floor when the Democrats brought Alito’s wife to tears.

Ted Kennedy said, “Finally, I just say, Mr. President, if you are concerned and you want a justice that is going to stand for the working men and women in this country, it’s not going to be judge Alito. If you are concerned about women’s privacy rights, about the opportunity for women to gain fair employment in America, it’s not judge Alito. If you care about the disabled, the rehabilitation act that we passed, the “idea” act to include children in our schools that we passed, that’s been on the books for 25 years, the disability act that we have passed to bring all of the disabled into our society, if you are looking for someone that is going to be a friend of the disabled, it’s not going to be judge Alito. And finally, if you are looking for someone that is going to be willing to stand up to the executive branch of government at a time that he is going to exceed his power and authority and the law of this country, it is not going to be Judge Alito.”

In a letter to the readers of Daily KOS Kennedy wrote:

“The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings confirmed our worst fears, and we have to take the strongest possible stand against him (Alito). We owe it to this generation and future generations of Americans to oppose any such nominee who will roll back the progress we've made. The next three days will make all the difference in whether enough Democrats are willing to stand firm against this shameful nomination.”

You can always count on Counterpunch (“America’s Best Political Newsletter”) to say something absolutely ridiculous on any subject and concerning Alito’s nomination they don’t let us down:

“The nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court has, whether we recognize it or not, driven America to the brink. Alito crystallizes a constellation of crises enveloping constitutional democracy as we have known it in America. The political ramifications of the Alito nomination are Byzantine.” (Question: When does someone cross the line between exaggerating and lying? Answer: Read this article)

The Left and Paleo-Conservative Right will do anything to discredit the Bush Administration and they will attempt to destroy anyone they perceive to ally themselves with our President. Time after time they have made the most dire predictions of misconduct by the Bush Administration and each and every time it has come to nothing.

I will leave you with some links that if combined could form a book that writes itself. It would be called, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Left” (surprise, surprise). What is most balanced than their own words?

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate, exposes a sinister Conspiracy

Robert Gordon gets disturbed at TPM Café

David Kusnet writes on the New Republic Online that he doesn’t want us to be fooled by the fact that Alito has working class roots, understands personally how bad discrimination is and has strong family ties. Instead his reasoning leads us to judge Alito based on the innuendo and misconceptions of the Left (it appears that from this link the website wants you to register, but I was able to view the article without the hassle by doing a Google search and typing, alito new republic family guy)